This plugin provides a framework and interface for a synchronization mechanism distributed to multiple server instances. In today's world of horizontal computational
scale and massive concurrency, it becomes increasingly difficult to synchronize operations outside the context of a single computational space (server/process). This plugin aims to make that
easier by providing a simple service to facilitate this, as well as defining an interface for adding low level providers.

The Asset-Pipeline is a plugin used for managing and processing static assets in Grails applications. Asset-Pipeline functions include processing and minification of both CSS and JavaScript files. It is also capable of being extended to compile custom static assets, such as CoffeeScript.